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Listening to various versions of Jorge Ben’s “Taj Mahal” for years now has made hearing “…Sexy?” strange. At first I couldn’t hear the Ben without hearing Stewart’s lifting of it (annoyingly so), but now that process is happily reversed. I’m pretty sure Reynolds mentioned “Taj Mahal” in Retromania, so I’m slightly surprised he didn’t make the connection more explicit here, since it’s a very literal instance of Stewart borrowing from “contemporary black music.”
(Source: andrewtsks)
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andrewtsks’s text below makes sense. Sorta like how “Good Thing” by the Fine Young Cannibals is a terrific r’n’b song,...
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Never heard that before! Has anyone written the inevitable “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” was the first mash-up post yet? Also,...
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Listening to various versions of Jorge Ben’s “Taj Mahal” for years now has made hearing “…Sexy?” strange. At first I...
jrichmanesq said:
i don’t think the concepts of liking the new forms of music and chasing the money tied to them are mutually exclusive
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sweatonthelawn said:
This is a fantastically astute insight, but one I find not so mind-blowing, perhaps because I’ve absorbed it previously from others who observed the same, and if so then I thought, “But the music’s just as shitty [or great] anyhow.”
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